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    MARX AND WEBER: A THEORY OF HISTORICAL CHANGE

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    1968-04-01
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    Willer, David
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    Department of Sociology, University of Kansas
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    Copyright (c) Social Thought and Research. For rights questions please contact Editor, Department of Sociology, Social Thought and Research, Fraser Hall, 1415 Jayhawk Blvd, Lawrence, KS 66045.
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    Though historical sequences of Western civilization are capable of being described by a simple, unilinear, evolutionary theory of history, attempts to generalize unilinear theories beyond Western cultural areas have failed. Thus the attempts of modem "Marxists" to generalize Marx and Engels' "theory of history" beyond its scope of application, Western civilization, have met with the expected results. Their sequence of stages of history simply do not fit other cultural areas. The Marx-Engels theory of history was explicitly designed for a single case and has little or no application outside that case.The theory therefore has no explanatory power and may be viewed as simply a tool for describing a single case. Extension of the theory beyond that case would require modification, specifically conceptual elaboration, such that it becomes more than simply descriptive.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/1808/4693
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    https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.4693
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    Kansas Journal of Sociology, Volume 4, Number 2 (SPRING, 1968), pp. 65-69 http://dx.doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.4693

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